Richard, This may be an effect of the printer's minimum margins affecting your output. Try reducing the height of your rectangle, and consider making its border invisible unless you want some paper-cutting challenges.
THEN, unless these are actually tent-style flashcards, look at the question of getting the back side of the card to align properly and contain the "answer" from the appropriate front-side record's "question". I've used relational pointers to produce 2-up, 4 per sheet postcards that need a personalized back and front. May be overkill for flash cards, though. Blake On 11/10/09 12:46 PM, "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]> sent: > Here's something I've never encountered before. > > I've set up a database to print flash cards you know, the kind > where it says something like "5 x 8 = __" on the front and "40" on > the back. I wanted to print 4 cards to a sheet, so I set all margins > to zero and created a rectangle (306 pixels wide by 396 high) to > completely fill the body part (which, curiously, is only 395 pixels > high, despite being able to accommodate a 396-pixel graphic object). > Columns set to 2, across 1st. > > So I go to look at it in Preview mode, and everything's copacetic. I > don't expect to see the outer edges of the rectangle on the actual > output, of course, because they're outside the printer's print area, > but they show up just fine on screen in Preview mode. > > And here's the significant part the 1st page of output looks to > have 4 cards ... in Preview mode. > > Then I go to the actual printing process and the oddity occurs. The > very 1st page (none of the rest, only the 1st one) starts printing > what looks to be about 10-11 pixels down the sheet and only has Cards > 1 and 2 on it, not Cards 1-4 as expected. This is definitely not the > way it looked in Preview mode. Cards 3 and 4, which I expected to be > at the bottom of Page 1, end up at the top of Page 2, and everything > else is shifted accordingly. > > This isn't a deal-killer; I can certainly work with it. But it's odd, > and I don't like to have unknowns like this lying around loose. > > No, I don't have either a header part or a title header part only > the 1 body part, with 1 field and 1 graphic object on it. (I do have > a bunch of buttons across the top of the layout, but they're all set > to non-printing and so shouldn't have this effect on printing, should > they?) > > Any clues? Blake Downes Health Survey Research Center School of Public Health University of Minnesota Phone: 612-626-8822
